Wednesday, 30 August 2017

More than 40 million people have been affected by devastating floods and landslides in South Asia, UN humanitarian agencies have said.
Torrential monsoon rains have killed at least 1,200 people and left millions fleeing their homes in India, Bangladesh and Nepal over the last fortnight.

Have you ever gone to see a Nigerian film in the cinema based on a film critic's opinion or based on what someone recommended to you and wanted to demand two hours of your life back or ask for a refund? Well it has happened to me.

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has assigned Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to henceforth chair the concluding part of the ongoing negotiation between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

ASUU, an umbrella association of lecturers in the nation’s universities, is demanding the full implementation of the 2009 agreements reached with the federal government bordering on improvement in welfare and payment of backlog of salaries and entitlements, among other issues.

A suspected cannibal and member of a kidnap gang, Roland Peter, has been arrested by the police in Rivers State for killing, beheading and using liver and intestines of his victim to prepare pepper soup.

The suspect was said to be among the kidnappers that abducted, killed and beheaded one Pastor Samuel Okpara from Edoha in the Ahoada East Local Government Area of the state on August 15, 2017.

Hushpuppi has replied Deji Adeyanju, a member of the People’s Democractic Party, who called for his arrest during a protest for the extradition of Diezani in front of the headquarters of EFCC yesterday.

President Muhammadu has decided to keep his personal decision on the Cabinet Shake up expected to be done soon as the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, and the President's allies, who are popularly known as cabals holding different views, News Punch has learned reliably

Osinbajo, according to This Day has suggested cabinet reshuffle but the President allies want the sack of all the cabinet members to pave way for new members loyal to the President.

Nigeria has stressed the need to ensure that all UN peacekeepers deployed to troubled spots globally were safe in the course of discharging their duties.

Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Prof. Tijjani Bande, stated this at the Security Council ‘Open Debate on the UN Peacekeeping Operations: their potential contributions to the overarching goal of sustaining peace’.

Several social media companies in the West have been criticised for a perceived lack of transparency in alleged talks with the Iranian authorities on censoring content to the approval of the country’s strict religious authorities.

Instagram, currently available in the country – as well as Twitterand YouTube, which are blocked but widely visited by Iranians using proxy servers – have all been reported by local media in recent weeks as as co-operating with the authorities to aid them in blocking or censoring “immoral” content.

An activist, Deji Adeyanju has called on officials of the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest Malaysian-based
Nigerian Big Boy, Hushpuppi, over his lugubrious spending and lavish lifestyle.